Car Seat
Artist
Thomas Barrow
1938 Kansas City, Missouri - 2024 Albuquerque, New Mexico
Date1994-96
Mediumchair, plastic, paint, found objects, photographs, collage
Dimensions38 × 23 × 19 1/2 in. (96.5 × 58.4 × 49.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Jonathan Abrams and Fay Pfaelzer Abrams
Object numberPC2014.1.4
DescriptionAn assemblage in the form of an armchair coated almost entirely in a black, tar-like material. The chair is covered in numerous toy cars of various types, sizes, and colors. Embedded in the black material on the back and seat of the chair are black-and-white and color photographs depicting classic cars, race car accidents, and monster truck rallies. The chair is on caster wheels and a textured metal panel peeks through the black material along the front edge of the seat.On View
On view
1895
